How to Use misguided in a Sentence

misguided

adjective

• She's been getting a lot of bad advice from misguided friends.
• He blames the crisis on the government's misguided economic policies.
• Gone are the misguided Asian jokes, the sizeism slander, the ableist language and the whole pedophilia plot.
  — Ashley Lee, Los Angeles Times, 13 Jan. 2024
• There was the misguided decision not to run the ball on the goal line, costing the Patriots 4 points.
  — Ben Volin, BostonGlobe.com, 18 Dec. 2022
• That misguided perspective washed away the first time Couch’s feet touched the hardwood.
  — Sam Cohn, Baltimore Sun, 3 Jan. 2024
• The misguided dismissal of the Southeastern U.S. that has arisen from the death of Roe has come from several places.
  — Becca Andrews, ELLE, 17 Nov. 2022
• Instead, McCourty dived to pick off the misguided mallard at the Jets 40.
  — Chad Finn, BostonGlobe.com, 31 Oct. 2022
• But the truth behind this misguided effort is clearly exposed by the provisions of the bill and the current law.
  — Reader Commentary, Baltimore Sun, 8 Feb. 2024
• The nasty stuff coming out of the mouths of bots may be just misguided playacting, but the script is fascinating.
  — Steven Levy, WIRED, 24 Feb. 2023
• Kentucky helped ignite it on the game’s first play, a misguided attempt at a reverse.
  — Brett Dawson, The Courier-Journal, 10 Oct. 2022
• Just look at a similarly misguided law called the Durbin Amendment that passed more than a decade ago.
  — Richard Hunt, Fortune, 13 Feb. 2024
• That's where misguided variations like the behind the neck pullup come into play.
  — Jeff Tomko, Men's Health, 14 Sep. 2022
• But their belief that stronger unions would solve the party’s problems is misguided.
  — Heather Wilhelm, National Review, 9 Nov. 2023
• Last year Harry Styles was pelted in the eye after a misguided fan tossed Skittles candy at the stage.
  — Althea Legaspi, Rolling Stone, 4 Dec. 2023
• His decisions on the athletic front, on the other hand, have been more than a tad misguided.
  — Jon Wilner, The Mercury News, 23 Jan. 2024
• The misguided off-roader received a fine from the State Parks service and managed to move their truck off the beach after deflating the tires.
  — Miles Klee, Rolling Stone, 7 Mar. 2024
• This is why the fixation on civic activism is so misguided.
  — Time, 12 Jan. 2023
• But Terplan says this line of thinking is deeply misguided.
  — Sara Novak, Scientific American, 15 June 2023
• At best, these are misguided attempts to juice the poster’s social media presence.
  — WIRED, 28 July 2023
• But his answer that was most misguided came when he was asked if country music had a race problem.
  — Jon Freeman, Rolling Stone, 4 May 2023
• From Humphrey’s point of view, these attitudes are misguided.
  — Nick Romeo, The New Yorker, 15 Mar. 2023
• And there are those who say ESG is misguided–or even value-destroying.
  — Jeff Levinson, Fortune, 19 Oct. 2023
• Through the lens of your work, why is this kind of English-only approach in education a misguided one?
  — Lisa Deaderick, San Diego Union-Tribune, 1 Apr. 2023
• This kind of misguided talk is the one consistent thread in my reporting on who Holmes really is.
  — Amy Chozick, BostonGlobe.com, 8 May 2023
• Don’t give me the misplaced, and misguided arguments about the Second Amendment either.
  — Joseph Goodman | [e-mail], al, 14 Mar. 2023
• So far, the Alexander case has been, if not quite a sleeper, not splashy front-page news, perhaps because of a misguided sense of its political stakes.
  — Michael Li, The New Republic, 2 Oct. 2023
• Let this disgusting and misguided decision—on the last day of Pride Month, no less—be a call to action for all of us to fight even harder for equality.
  — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 30 June 2023
• Some have compared his ouster to Apple’s famously misguided firing of a young Steve Jobs.
  — Paolo Confino, Fortune, 20 Nov. 2023
• On the other hand, a misguided president who has spent his entire career in politics can do a lot of damage in a month.
  — James Freeman, WSJ, 4 Oct. 2022
• Unable to imagine a day without his friends, the high-school junior avoids reality to chase a misguided dream.
  — Lovia Gyarkye, The Hollywood Reporter, 16 Aug. 2023

Last Updated: 3 May 2024